Zammara

Zammara
Zammara smaragdula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Zammarini
Subtribe: Zammarina
Genus: Zammara
Amyot and Serville, 1843
Species

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Zammara (from Hebrew: זַמָּר, romanized: zamár, lit. 'singer') is a genus of cicadas. These species are large cicadas that are generally bright blue-green in color. Like other cicadas, these can produce loud calls; Zammara tympanum, for example, makes a "winding up-like pulsating buzz." Zammara are found in the Neotropics, especially in equatorial regions, where they live in tropical forest habitat. The genus is characterized by tarsi (the "feet" of the insect) that are divided into 2 segments, or tarsomeres; other genera in the tribe have 3 tarsomeres in each tarsus.

There are about 15 or 16 species in the genus.

Species include:

References

  1. ↑ Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. [In] Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie: 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.
  2. 1 2 Goemans, G. The Neotropical cicada genus Zammara (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), untangling the taxonomic knot, using DNA, morphology and song. (Abstract). Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB-4. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting. Knoxville. November 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ Young, A. F. (1981).Notes on the population ecology of cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae) in the Cuesta Angel forest ravine of northeastern Costa Rica. Archived 2020-02-02 at the Wayback Machine Psyche 88 175-196.
  4. ↑ Allen M. Young Population Biology of Tropical Insects (2012), p. 52, at Google Books
  5. 1 2 Sanborn, A. F. (2004). Two new Zammara species from South America (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae). The Florida Entomologist 87(3) 365-71.
  6. 1 2 Goemans, G. (2010). A historical overview of the classification of the Neotropical tribe Zammarini (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) with a key to genera. ZooKeys 43 1-13.
  7. ↑ Maccagnan, D. H. B., et al. (2011). Zammara smaragdula Walker, 1858 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae): First record for Brazil. CheckList 7(4) 563-64.